9 cars that are too long in production have remained

Posted on 20-12-2015 to 12:30 by dizono – 32 Comments”

Some cars seem to have eternal life. The ravages of time seems barely to be able to gnaw at the Defender and G-Class. That is not the case for these 9 cars, which are clearly much too long in production remained.

In the West we are roughly every seven years spoiled with a new model. Sometimes the old is still just as available, as a cost-effective alternative. For example, think of the Clio Campus or the 206+. But far more often than you think, our hand-me-downs elsewhere in the world once again warmed up to many years. Funnily enough, it’s the big brands such as Volkswagen, PSA and Fiat that this tactic is still the best seem to manage.

Peugeot 504 (1968-2006)
Was our car of the year in 1969 and disappeared in 1983 after an already long career, from the showrooms. Not in Argentina, Kenya and Nigeria, where the car respectively in 1999, 2004 and 2006, was built. Horrible tail lights, and other attempts this moving fosiel to keep up to date.

Volkswagen Transporter T2 (1967-2013)
Oh, what did we all pity when, in 2013, the latest Volkswagen T2 of the band walked. That cute van was in the course of the years, however, have not been cute. Water-cooled and that was made painfully clear by an unsightly grille on the front.

Fiat Uno (1983-2013)
In 2010, South-America, finally, a new Uno, the basis for our Panda, but the warmed-up corpse if as the Mille is still for three years the local Fiat showrooms disfiguring.

Hindustan Ambassador (1958-2014)
If you thought that 56 years in production a long time, bear in mind that the Morix Oxford that the Hindustan is based is two years older. Once the most popular car of India, the last few years, nobody wants to buy more to wear off. Last year was the Ambassador finally out of his misery.

Volkswagen Jetta (1984-2013)
Volkswagen has the habit in Europe of discarded models elsewhere ad infinitum to continue to build. We have the above Transporter, of course, the Santana (on the basis of the Passat B2) is in China still available, the Golf 1 was, until 2009 in South Africa built and also the Jetta has long sustained. So long that this Wave II-with-ass the faceplate got that on the Golf VI was introduced. However, with standard fog lamps, and that was that Golf VI and not…

Diahatsu Charade G100 (1987-present)
That the Charade is still in production, that we can Diahatsu actually not to blame. They left the Chinese FAW the Charade in license building from 1988 and while they themselves in 1993, a new model is introduced, they remained in China but build and build. In 2012, we published the latest facelift of the FAW Tianjin Xiali N3, which is still new to purchase.

Citroën ZX (1991-2013)
Although the ZX on this list, one of the youngsters, it was in 2013 high time that the car to the grave was borne. The outside is, with elements of more recent models adorned in attempting to model modern seem, the interior is out of the Xsara. In the last few years was the name of the car C-Elysée and he was available as a hatchback (at the top) and sedan. Halfway through 2012, it was finally the redemption was presented, though it took some time before the current tyres really came to a stop.

Peugeot J7/J9 (1965-2015)
In 1965, introduces Peugeot her van with the distinctive sliding doors as front doors. In 1980, get the bus an update from Peugeot, and then if J9 until 1991 by mag. That is already long, but the Turkish Karssan, the bus remains in almost unaltered form until 2006 build, that year the bus even more thorough faceliften. It doesn’t stop there, in 2010, they come up with the J10. Again, there have been attempts done the look to modernize, but with a bit of searching, are the roots from 1965 still visible.

Ford Falcon (1960-1991)
I will close with a car that is almost 15 years out of production, but he is too nice not to call. In 1960, presented Ford USA Falcon, for American concepts of a supermini. From 1962 the car was also by Ford Argentina built and who went there just a little longer than in the States. Until 10 september 1991, to be exact, and by that time the car from the beginning of the years ’60, a faceplate and mirrors of the last generation Ford Taunus.